NEWS - Review of shoots

NEWS - Review of Shoots

in this post I will review the shoots and my thoughts/feelings upon them.

TESCO

the Tesco shoot in Sittingbourne, in the end was smaller than i had originally expected, we weren't allowed to really shoot in the store itself, focusing primarily upon the meeting room where we were based for the shoot. we shot the interview first and then shot a couple of set-up shots in a little used part of the store to set up the two interviewees.

in my opinion the shot went really well, thankfully the location was close to the railway station as during this shoot it was my responsibility to look after the camera equipment.

Kent Sheds

the kent sheds shoot was in gravesend a fair distance from the railway station, around the back of a cafe on the promenade, Gravesend is a willowy town and the views from the promenade of the huge power station have stayed with me. the shoot itself was fairly standard excepting for its location, that being a low-headroom workshop space, we didn't shoot much more at Kent sheds than the interview, however this shoot has stayed with me due to the bleak beauty of the location.

Demelza

the demelza shoot went very well in my opinion, the location was picturesque allowing for a large number of GV's as well as the two interviews we had planned. the location was not easy to get t, requiring a 20 minute drive from the station to the location however this issue was mitigated by the availability of a team member's family member who provided transport to us.

we started by looking around the location with a chaperone to find two good places for our interviews, we ended up doing one in the admin offices, and the other near to the location of Demalza's sensory garden-building site. we interviewed their press officer and an assistant gardener who works i the development of the new garden.

STUDIO

our studio shoots went generally well, on our first attempt we neglected using in-camera sound, preferring a handheld Zoom field recorder, this however resulted in extremely poor sound quality.
our second attempt went particularly well, with no sound or vision isses thanks to our use of a clip radio microphone.

we lit a white wall using a mixture of tungsten and LED lighting equipment, this provided a clinical and appropriate background for our presenter, (Laura), while lighting her using a single LED light-box, this resulted in what Fergus referred to as "hollywood" lighting, the method by which you light the background and subject separately.